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Sony announced Wednesday that it is bringing Hi-Res Music Stations to 70 Best Buy Magnolia Design Center locations. The stations will be featured on Sony’s Walkman portable players, headphone amplifiers and music servers.

Sharp Electronics Marketing Co. of America President Jim Sanduski presented two new series of Sharp Aquos 4K Ultra HD TVs at a New York City press event Wednesday, while also stating the company's commitment to the U.S. market.

Samsung and the makers of the new “Jurassic Park” sequel, “Jurassic World,” have announced a tie-in, along with Best Buy: Not only will footage from the new film be featured on Samsung Ultra HD TVs in Best Buy stores, but Samsung’s Innovation Center will make an appearance in the film. In the effort, jointly announced by Universal Pictures, production company Amblin Entertainment, Samsung and Best Buy, “ exclusive content” from the movie will be featured at more than 500 Best Buy locations, on Samsung’s S-UHD 4K TVs. Samsung will also include “Jurassic World” footage in its global marketing campaigns.

Sharp Electronics Marketing Company of America announced that it has named Fred Ehmke its new director of sales. Ehmke will report to Peter Weedfald, the recently appointed senior vice president of sales.

Roku announced that Sharp has become the latest brand to sell Roku TVs. The TVs, available in 43” and 50” sizes, will be available exclusively at Best Buy.
Like previous Roku TVs from TCL and Hisense, the TVs will feature the Roku OS.

LG officially took the wraps off its 2015 4K Ultra HD OLED flagship product – the 65-inch curved Model 65EG9600 – at a New York City-held event Wednesday, where it also teamed with Netflix to tout both OLED TVs’ image reproduction capabilities as well as the 4K streaming debut this Friday of the Netflix original series, Marvel’s Daredevil.

LG officially took the wraps off its 2015 4K Ultra HD OLED flagship product – the 65-inch curved Model 65EG9600 – at a New York City-held event Wednesday, where it also teamed with Netflix to tout both OLED TVs’ image reproduction capabilities as well as the 4K streaming debut this Friday of the Netflix original series, Marvel’s Daredevil.